Great MSN Messenger Clone on Linux

My friend, Tap, recommended me a good MSN Messenger client for Linux, emesence (I am not sure if the author tend to let me pronounce that as em-es-ence).

After some experiments with this new program, I have to tell you that this is by far the best MSN Messenger clone I have ever used. The experience is very similar to Microsoft Windows Live Messenger. The GUI is also polish. Here is a sample screen shot I took.

It seems like installing this program from the package manager is not possible at the moment (without adding unstable repository they provided). However, manually installing this program is easy. Because you only need to unpack the archive file and double click the script to get it run. You can eventually create a nice launcher for this program and assign an icon located at /misc/ directory for it too.

I think this program will soon be a great option from those of Pidgin and aMSN. Finally, I really recommend this program for new Linux users :)

You can get it here, http://emesene.org/trac/wiki/WikiStart.

Uninstalled Netbeans 5.5.1 from my Ubuntu

It is not because I do not like Netbeans or something like that. But it is because I got the brand new Netbeans 6.0 IDE installed on my computer. So I think it is OK to uninstall the old version now :)

You can get Netbeans 6.0 IDE here!


Different versions of Netbeans IDE actually can coexist without any conflict. Unfortunately, my HDD space of Ubuntu partition is very limited (at 6 GB). So I need to keep only the programs I actually use.

Uninstalling program from Ubuntu Linux is done differently from Windows. I installed the Netbeans IDE using the Package Manager. But I cannot find a way to uninstall the program using it. So I checked Application->Add/Remove... but still got no luck. So I finally browsed to Netbeans 5.5.1 folder located at /home/m3rlinez/netbeans-5.5.1/_uninst/ and found an uninstall script (uninstaller.sh). I double clicked on it and selected Run in Terminal. Then, the nice GUI popped up and I uninstalled Netbeans.

After my experience from using the latest release of Ubuntu (7.10). I think Ubuntu is now ready for many computer geeks and Java developers. But it may not be ready my mom :( The team has to get more works done.

My Java Remote Method Invocation Tutorial in Thai

My assignment in course Distributed System forced me to study Java Remote Method Invocation or, in short, Java RMI. The requirements are to invoke some methods on the server, host my own server and let my client invoke method in it.

Java RMI is in the same position as .NET Remoting object I mentioned before. It facilitates the interprocess communication. However, I think both method are too hard to use. The .NET Remoting requires ugly configuations while Java RMI requires the policy file. They should be easier.

So, to help the less experience Java programmers getting started, I decided to publish an article on how to make use of Java RMI with Eclipse IDE. The article is in Thai language. You can find it here, http://m3rlinez.googlepages.com/RMITutorial.pdf

Edit: I got some feedbacks from my friends and found that there are still some mistakes in the tutorial. I will correct these when I have time.